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Nafisi
Harsh Patel
Section QK
Assignment #1
Rough Draft From merely the last two decades, women have begun to show out in society with their vast achievements and accomplishments. In the early days of the Iranian revolution, a young woman named Azar Nafisi started teaching at the University of Tehran. However, in 1981, Nafisi was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear an Islamic veil. Seven years later, however, she did indeed resume teaching but soon resigned in protest over the increasingly cruel punishments of the Iranian government toward women. She dreamed of working with students that carried a great passion for learning. In Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi and her seven students join together every Thursday morning at her home and discuss classic texts of Western literature that have to do with prominent figures. In the conditions Nafisi lived in , however, it was illegal for women to form small study groups that didn 't have to do with what the government wanted them to learn about. Nafisi, herself, knew the risks and how dangerous it would be to betray the laws of the Iranian government. At that time, women were forced to live by dreadful laws; laws that made women dress a certain way when being seen in public. They were only allowed to dress up in black robes and head scarves, only their face and hands being uncovered. With the conditions that Nafisi and her students lived under, it is more dangerous to withdraw into their dreams rather to resign themselves to a disturbing reality because of how restricted the laws were forced upon the citizens of Iran. There are many circumstances to the possible outcomes one may face when following his or her own dream. Azar Nafisi dreamed of being a teacher to young students. It became her occupation at a point in her life, but the university enforced strict rules on its teachers. “They had harassed and limited me in all manner of ways, monitoring my visitors, controlling my actions,

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